Should I Stucco My Wood Frame House? NO! And More on Preservation

The City of Los Angeles has long had a reputation for unbridled development and a disregard for the treasures of the past, but you would never know that if you first looked at the City’s own preservation website, www.Preservation.LaCity.org.  Here’s a great link from that website to a brochure on Caring for Your Historic Home: http://preservation.lacity.org/files/HPOZ%20Rehabilitation%20Guide_0.pdf.  Perhaps one reason the Office of Historic Resources, a part of the Department of City Planning, appears to have its act together is because the former head of the Los Angeles Conservancy, Ken Bernstein, is now the Manager. 

Also on the website is a list of all the Historic Preservation Overlay Zones in the City as well as a list of proposed HPOZs.  Another link is Search for a Property, http://www.preservation.lacity.org/status which gives instructions how to research possibly historic properties through the City’s websites. 

To complement that website, I offer you the Should I Stucco My Wood Frame House?  brochure that I had updated a few years back.

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